Comitted to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 4 Num 36 Wed. July 02, 2003  
   
Letters to Editor


Our politics


I refer to the comments made by Mr. Fredrick T. Temple, the outgoing country director of World Bank in Dhaka on Bangladesh political system (June 27).

Mr. Temple has justly said "the political system in Bangladesh is being increasingly commercialised by the way election system works and that generates the demands for bribes". He further said that the "candidates spend huge amounts of money to get elected" and that "if they win, many use their offices to recoup their investments with profit". Will our Netas and Netrees (leaders) counter his remarks? No! They cannot because they know what Mr. Temple has said is true.

Unfortunately, throughout the world the democratic political system has had been the luxury of the affluent classes and nowhere in the world the "democratic" elections are ordinary man's game.